WHAT?! WHOA!?! How did this happen. I have been checking the site for months now and always got a message that tickets weren't on sale yet! I get an email today saying that they are officiall on sale to find the show is sold out?! OMGWTF. I have been looking forward to this FOR MONTHS!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

/angry outburst

I will join in this plea for tickets now. Looking for 2 (me and Zach-not-truckface).

[quote]On Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 pm, ET, Q2 Music presents a live audio Webcast of the sold-out Ecstatic Music Festival concert of influential, indie pioneers Mountain Goats and the acclaimed early vocal music ensemble Anonymous 4.

The show centers around a performance of Transcendental Youth, a new song cycle by songwriter John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats presented here in an imaginative arrangement by violinist-composer Owen Pallett for voices, piano and guitar. Pallett, aside from releasing numerous albums under his own name (and previously as Final Fantasy), has worked extensively with such indie-rock icons as Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear.

Driven by Darnielle's bookish lyrics and the band's urgent, often stripped-down delivery, The Mountain Goats have achieved an almost cult-like status over the course of the band's two-decade career and thirteen studio albums. Their most recent record, All Eternals Deck, was released in 2011. The repertoire of the all-female a cappella quartet Anonymous 4 ranges from medieval transcriptions to contemporary American music. In addition to their performance of Transcendental Youth, the ensemble will perform early-music selections from their catalog, as chosen by John Darnielle.

Pending artist approval, the audio from this show will be made available following the concert for on-demand streaming. For previous Ecstatic Music Festival show audio now available on-demand, visit our Ecstatic Music On-Demand archive.[/quote]

All you forum peeps that are going need to stick around for this after the show!

[quote="Kaufman Center"]
Please join us for a free post-concert reception in the Upper Lobby immediately following the concert. Mingle with fellow audience members, talk about the show, and enjoy wine and snacks on us
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if anyone still needs tickets, there appears to be a pair up for sale on the kaufman center website. not sure why/how (as they were definitely sold out) and i haven't clicked all the way through to confirm availability, but i was able to select row C seats 106 & 107.

Ok, the family bailed on the drive from DC, so I'm coming up with three extra tickets (D-106, H-109 and H-110). Call me at seven oh three four eight three sixteen thirty seven. Only want face value (20 each). Can meet at the concert hall at 7. UPDATE: Tickets have been claimed!

Is anyone here a dude in glasses who took a picture last night with a red digital camera of JD with a guy in a fedora who JD remembered from Twitter and a girl with short hair in a black poofy skirt and Nancy Drew t-shirt? That'd be my friend and me, respectively. I heard him saying something about the forums a bit before he took our picture, but was too busy being excited out of my mind to ask for contact info. Anyway, my friend and I would (obviously) be thrilled to have a copy of this picture if you're the one who took it. My e-mail address is my user name at gmail.

It was a completely awesome night. The show itself was amazing and Anonymous 4 were really impressive. My favorite song of theirs was The Scientist even after the initial disappointment that it wasn't a Coldplay cover. JD's set was amazing as expected and it was great to hear some of those unreleased songs live. I was really excited to hear Bride and thankfully he was reminded that he skipped Cut Off Their Thumbs for the encore. The new songs are amazing and I can't wait to hear them. Does anyone know about when the new album is supposed to be released? Also, and this may be just me, I was really hoping when A4 came back out for their encore they would break into The Sign.

It was great meeting everyone, sorry for my complete failure at remembering people's real names. Jess and I counted at least 20 forum people that were there which is very cool! It was very cool and brave of JD to mingle with all of us, especially after the free wine had all run out Jess made a great comment, tMG shows are like family reunions except you want to get together with these people.

grammargirl, I think you are talking about alectherins. He hasn't posted here in a while but you can hit him up on twitter (@alectherins). I think he's getting back home on Thursday so you may want to wait until then.

Corbin, shoot me over an email (it's in my profile) and I'll send you a link to that thing I was talking about.

I saw some of you but didn't say hi, because i'm a jerk like that. Also I made a last minute decision when the show ended before 10 to run to the Raid Redemption screening at the AMC across the street which started at 10:20. HAHA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlmhMSnVdM

Since it only opened in 5 cities, I figured I'd catch it, and I'm glad I did because it was fucking insane.

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